Rifters PbtA

In 2081, first contact was made with the R'ftar race. They were a small group of refugee-survivors from their home planet, which was ravaged by war. As the R'ftar ship was leaving, their homeworld exploded, damaging the ship. The scientists aboard the ship began work on a time travel device so they could stop the war before it even started.

After years of study, they ran out of the meager resources that were available to them on the ship. Their ship eventually brought them to Earth. After spending two years in quarantine, the R'ftar, not too unlike humans in physiology, joined the general populace. Then in 2085, the R'ftar scientists made their breakthrough on time travel with the invention of the Personal Nexus Operation Band or P-NOB for short. However, from spending so much time with the untrustworthy humans, they kept their discovery to themselves, slipping through the Nexus, that space between time, to attempt to right wrongs they felt had been dealt them at the hands of their keepers while they were in quarantine.

After fifteen years of slipping through the Nexus, some of the R'ftar children and children of human and R'ftar interbreeding called Rifters, had been born with the natural ability to slip through the Nexus. Human and R'ftar society had merged to create Nexers, but with so much slipping going on, small holes into the Nexus, called Infernos, began appearing in areas of heavy Nexus operation. The United States government discovered theses "anomalies" and studied them, soon discovering the fact that the R'ftar people had the technology and the knowledge to timeslip. The government set up CRONOS-- the Corporation Regulating Order on Nexus Operator Sentinels-- to attempt to control the use of Nexus Operation, the official term for timeslipping. This was in 2103.

The current year is 2147 AD. All of the R'ftar are dead. Their children, however, those born of human and R'ftar—the Rifters—are still around and still evading CRONOS. Some Rifter families have had children with a natural sense of Infernos and to when they lead. CRONOS prizes these children almost as much as the Nexers. Once they find an Inferno, anyone can go through. The Inferno-sensing Rifters are known as Dreamers. Those with no special ability to timeslip must use a P-NOB and are known as Cruisers. Player Characters can be any of the three - - Nexer, Dreamer or Cruiser-- and each has its own merits as well as drawbacks. Timeslipping, Nexus Jumping, whatever you want to call it. It is still illegal except for CRONOS. However, there are ways around the legalities...

Rifters is the first worldbook for Circus-13's Power Legion RPG, now Powered by the Apocalypse. This is an untested version of the game. If you like the game world, please download and give this a shot (only 2d6 needed).